Aikido for 09/29/2011

Tonight Tip taught class and after warm-ups and tenkan and irimi exercises we worked on the following techniques:

• kosadori ikkyo omote and ura 2 variations with the second variation nage instead of going into uke, nage moves sharply with hip with a much smaller circle with the grabbed wrist. I found I had to be more abrupt with my hip movement in order to generate the necessary energy for an effective throw.
• kosadori sankyo omote
• kosadori nikkyo omote and ura
• kosadori gokyu-style kokyunage, Ken and I were working together and he pointed out some subtleties involving angles and movement that I missed being uke during Tip's demonstration of the technique.
• We then switched to paired jo practice that replicate the first few movements of the 13-jo kata
• jo kata number with two different variations, both variations involving uke to take ether back or forward ukemi

Tonight was a good class and I realize I need to be better and writing my Aikido practice blog posting closer to when the class actually happened. Even a couple days the memory of that particular Aikido practice starts blend and fade to this corprus of many, many hours practicing Aikido.